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Mount Diablo Asheley Schraeder in this story is a six foot tall red head. She loves horses, volleyball, and most of all basketball. She is a middle school teacher and high school varsity basketball and volleyball coach. She loves jeans and boots and always has confidence. The setting takes place on Mount Diablo in Clayton, California. Summer of 2005. I drove up the driveway. The dirt turned into a huge cloud behind me. I drove through the gate. The dry dirt road soon turned to pavement. I…

Lower Normandy is a very impressive and interesting place while not being hardly larger than the State of Connecticut. It is the site of many game changing and devastating historical events. Lower Normandy also has a beautiful landscape and beaches.. Lower Normandy also has its own fair share of indigenous cuisine only found in the area. There are also three different regions in Lower Normandy, Calvados, Manche, and Orne. The first of the regions, is called Calvados. Calvados is recognized for…

For many years’ horses have been auctioned off to slaughter houses for money and their meat. This is a very disturbing and inhumane process that happens quite often in the U.S. and needs taken care of. Horse slaughter is a very brutal and terrifying end for horses. They way horses are treated before and during these slaughters are horrific and extremely inappropriate. Horses are also considered pets, family members to some people. Not to mention, many Americans do not eat horse meat so it is…

they maintain them merely for profit. I read numerous articles on the good of PETA like “the doomed derby”, Concerning Peta’s investigations and campaigns it is about the rescue of a race horse who was being shipped to a slaughter house. The “thoroughbred” racehorse is the granddaughter of Kentucky Derby winner Unbridled and the cousin of the derby entrant Eight Belles. She was bought by a meat buyer at a livestock auction for only $200. Just when the racehorse was hours from being trucked to a…

The Ungodly Are Not So Sometimes we are afraid to call a spade a spade because we are so besotted with the world, and hungry for its applause and approval, that we would do and say nothing that offends them. This is not about political correctness, when one has to avoid loaded words and terms that can cause unintended offence, but the avoidance of describing a reality that exists right here and now. Jesus taught the world many things and one of them was that reality does not disappear just…

The Last Days of Socrates is a collection of dialogues written by Plato about his former teacher Socrates. Within the dialogues, the character of Socrates is built through his actions and his interactions with various people. While Plato is clearly intending to write about one clear character, his teacher Socrates, when analyzing the text there are visible inconsistencies about Socrates and his beliefs. Specifically, when comparing Socrates’ actions in the Apology, it is evident that his…

their lack of knowledge, leading to benefits for society. Socrates utilizes the less formal analogy of himself as a fly constantly buzzing around a horse, stating that “I have literally been attached by God to our city, as if to a horse – a large thoroughbred, which is a bit sluggish because of its size, and needs to be aroused” (Plato, Defence of Socrates 30e) . By making such a comparison, Socrates points to how his presence may be bothersome, but is necessary for the betterment of the state…

Racial Passing Introduction The behavior of “passing” has been a repeated topic for many researchers. The post-civil war era, saw African American were still unable to merge into society as full and equal citizens. Whereas the civil war might have brought about a level of liberation and development of the African American community, there was little growth in social or economic status. The discernment of dominant White Americans towards African American remained unshifted. Consequently,…

It does show a bit of racial tensions and relations though, but in an unconventional way. Seabiscuit is not like most of the horses it faces, it is a smaller thoroughbred, and it was given up on early on. The horse was not a different breed than the other or a different race, but it was different. It brought hope to the people who did not have any; it was like people of color coming out and winning when the odds…

George Berkeley, A treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge In this essay I will be discussing a few sections from George Berkeley, A treatise concerning the Principle of human knowledge. I will explain the arguments being set out by Berkeley within the text, then I will proceed to make an objection of my own, which I will respond to on behalf of Berkeley. George Berkeley starts off introducing us to his theory “to be is to be perceived”. Within the first few paragraphs of the…